Theodore Lorch

Theodore Lorch

Born: September 29, 1873
Died: November 12, 1947
in Springfield, Illinois, USA
Theodore Lorch (September 29, 1873 – November 12, 1947) was an American film actor. He appeared in more than 140 films between 1908 and 1947.

Movies for Theodore Lorch...

Spaceship to the Unknown
Title: Spaceship to the Unknown
Character: Priest #2 (archive footage)
Released: January 1, 1966
Type: Movie
A heavy condensation of the original serial compresses the original thirteen episodes into an efficient 97 minute feature. Disaster seems imminent when scientists discover that the planet Mongo is about to crash into Earth. Luckily, heroic young Flash Gordon is on hand to lead an investigative mission into outer space and onto the speedily approaching planet. There, he and his best girl, Dale, who is along for the ride, learn that Ming, the devious ruler of Mongo, has purposely put the planet on a collision course with Earth, and only Flash can stop him.
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The Hot Scots
Title: The Hot Scots
Character: MacPherson (as Ted Lorch)
Released: July 8, 1948
Type: Movie
The stooges apply for job as 'Yard Men' at Scotland Yard, thinking they'll become detectives, but instead wind up as gardeners. When they learn that detectives are need to guard a Scottish castle where valuables have been disappearing, they masquerades as Scotsmen to get the job. After a spooky night in the castle, the boys expose the servants as the crooks.
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Here Comes Trouble
Title: Here Comes Trouble
Character: Audience Member (uncredited)
Released: March 15, 1948
Type: Movie
A blundering rookie reporter runs into some unexpected difficulty when he is assigned to cover the police beat.
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Body and Soul
Title: Body and Soul
Character: Man at Weigh-in (uncredited)
Released: November 11, 1947
Type: Movie
Charley Davis, against the wishes of his mother, becomes a boxer. As he becomes more successful the fighter becomes surrounded by shady characters, including an unethical promoter named Roberts, who tempt the man with a number of vices. Charley finds himself faced with increasingly difficult choices.
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My Brother Talks to Horses
Title: My Brother Talks to Horses
Character: Spectator at Racetrack (uncredited)
Released: February 4, 1947
Type: Movie
Living with his family in Baltimore, 9-year-old Lewie Penrose claims that he can converse with horses--and also pick the winners of upcoming races. When it appears as though Lewie is telling the truth, he attracts the interest of gambler Rich Roeder who needs a "sure thing" in the upcoming Preakness. Meanwhile, Lewie's older brother John carries on a romance with the lovely Martha.
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Half-Wits Holiday
Title: Half-Wits Holiday
Character: Prof. Sedletz (as Ted Lorch)
Released: January 9, 1947
Type: Movie
A professor bets one of his colleagues that he can turn the Stooges into gentlemen within 60 days. With the aid of his pretty daughter, the professor tries to teach the boys proper etiquette. After many frustrating attempts, he introduces the Stooges into society at a fancy party. At first things go all right, but the party soon degenerates into a wild pie fight.
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Deception
Title: Deception
Character: Well-Wisher at Concert (uncredited)
Released: October 26, 1946
Type: Movie
After marrying her long lost love, a pianist finds the relationship threatened by a wealthy composer who is besotted with her.
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Badman's Territory
Title: Badman's Territory
Character: Citizen's Committee Member (uncredited)
Released: May 4, 1946
Type: Movie
After some gun play with a posse, the James Gang head for Quinto in a section of land which is not a part of America. Anyone there is beyond the law so the town is populated with outlaws. Next to arrive is Sheriff Rowley, following his brother whom the Gang have brought in injured. Rowley has no authority and gets on well enough with the James boys but is soon involved in other local goings-on, including a move to vote for annexation with Oklahoma which would allow the law well and truly in.
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The Hoodlum Saint
Title: The Hoodlum Saint
Character: Minor Role (uncredited)
Released: April 4, 1946
Type: Movie
A former reporter comes back home after serving in the army during World War I and finds that it's much more difficult to find work than he expected. Desperate, one day he crashes a wedding attended by many of the city's rich and powerful, meets a beautiful girl named Kay who turns out to be his ticket to meeting those rich and powerful people, and he soon manages to land a job on a newspaper. He gets caught up in the "make money at all costs" game but receives a rude awakening when the stock market crashes in 1929.
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Uncivil War Birds
Title: Uncivil War Birds
Character: Union Colonel (uncredited)
Released: March 29, 1946
Type: Movie
The stooges are civil war soldiers who are constantly changing uniforms to avoid the opposing armies. Eventually they decide to be loyal to the south, but remain disguised as Union soldiers. Curly is detected as a spy, but Moe and Larry prevent his execution. The boys escape with a secret map and marry their three southern belles.
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If a Body Meets a Body
Title: If a Body Meets a Body
Character: Jerkington
Released: August 30, 1945
Type: Movie
Curly learns that he is named in the will of his rich uncle, so the boys head for the uncle's mansion to attend the reading of the will. They arrive on a dark and stormy night only to find that the lawyer has been murdered and the will and the body have disappeared. All the relatives must stay in the spooky house while the police investigate and the stooges are given the bedroom where the uncle was murdered. After a series of misadventures with a walking skull and the uncle's body, which keeps turning up in strange places, the stooges unmask the butler and maid as the killers and recover the will. Then they learn that Curly has only been left sixty seven cents.
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This Land Is Mine
Title: This Land Is Mine
Character: Juror
Released: May 7, 1943
Type: Movie
Somewhere in Europe, in a city occupied by the Nazis, a gentle school teacher finds himself torn between collaboration and resistance, cowardice and courage.
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Spook Louder
Title: Spook Louder
Character: Graves, the Inventor
Released: April 2, 1943
Type: Movie
The stooges are door-to-door salesman peddling a weight reducing machine, until they come to the house of an eccentric inventor, where they are mistaken for new caretakers, are left to guard his house, and must contend with enemy spies and a mysterious pie thrower.
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Bowery at Midnight
Title: Bowery at Midnight
Character: Tramp Playing Checkers at Friendly Mission (uncredited)
Released: October 30, 1942
Type: Movie
A seemingly charitable soup kitchen operator (who moonlights as a criminology professor) uses his Bowery mission as a front for his criminal gang. Police attempt to close in on the gang as they commit a series of robberies, murders and bizarre experiments on corpses.
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The Glass Key
Title: The Glass Key
Character: Dinner Guest (uncredited)
Released: September 8, 1942
Type: Movie
A crooked politician finds himself being accused of murder by a gangster from whom he refused help during a re-election campaign.
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The Pride of the Yankees
Title: The Pride of the Yankees
Character: Neighbor Leaning Through Window (uncredited)
Released: July 14, 1942
Type: Movie
The story of the life and career of the baseball hall of famer, Lou Gehrig.
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Butch Minds the Baby
Title: Butch Minds the Baby
Character: Susie's Neighbour (uncredited)
Released: March 20, 1942
Type: Movie
Aloysius 'Butch' Grogan leads a life of criminal activities motivated to provide for a widow and her child. He's on lookout for a gang of safe crackers when he has to also look after the baby of one of the criminals.
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The Remarkable Andrew
Title: The Remarkable Andrew
Character: Jurist
Released: March 5, 1942
Type: Movie
When Andrew Long, hyper-efficient small town accountant, finds a $1240 discrepancy in the city budget, his superiors try to explain it away. When he insists on pursuing the matter, he's in danger of being blamed himself. In his trouble, the spirit of Andrew Jackson, whom he idolizes, visits him, and in turn, summons much high-powered talent from American history...which only Andrew can see.
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Jesse James at Bay
Title: Jesse James at Bay
Character: Townsman
Released: October 17, 1941
Type: Movie
When Jesse learns that Krager is cheating settlers, he and his gang rob trains to obtain money for them to purchase their land. Krager, finding a Jesse look alike in Burns, hires him to wreck havoc on the ranchers. When Jesse kills Burns he switches clothes and goes after the culprits.
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Nine Lives Are Not Enough
Title: Nine Lives Are Not Enough
Character: City Room Worker (uncredited)
Released: September 20, 1941
Type: Movie
A reporter is constantly in trouble for jumping to conclusions.
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Bad Man of Deadwood
Title: Bad Man of Deadwood
Character: Businessman
Released: September 5, 1941
Type: Movie
Roy and Gabby fight bad guys to save the town of Deadwood.
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The Lady in Question
Title: The Lady in Question
Character: Juror (uncredited)
Released: August 7, 1940
Type: Movie
When a jury member takes in the defendant he couldn't convict, she has a bad influence on his son.
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The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Title: The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Character: Minor Role (uncredited)
Released: December 29, 1939
Type: Movie
Paris, France, 1482. Frollo, Chief Justice of benevolent King Louis XI, gets infatuated by the beauty of Esmeralda, a young Romani girl. The hunchback Quasimodo, Frollo's protege and bell-ringer of Notre Dame, lives in peace among the bells in the heights of the immense cathedral until he is involved by the twisted magistrate in his malicious plans to free himself from Esmeralda's alleged spell, which he believes to be the devil's work.
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Zorro's Fighting Legion
Title: Zorro's Fighting Legion
Character: Councilman Carlos
Released: December 16, 1939
Type: Movie
The mysterious Don Del Oro ("Lord of Gold"), an idol of the Yaqui Indians, plans to take over the gold and become Emperor. Francisco was put in charge of a legion to combat the Yaqui tribe and protect the land, but when attacked Zorro came to his rescue. Francisco's partner recognized Zorro as the hidalgo Don Diego Vega, then ask him to take over the fighting legion as his alter-ego Zorro.
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Buck Rogers
Title: Buck Rogers
Character: Kane's Council Member
Released: April 10, 1939
Type: Movie
Buck Rogers and Buddy Wade are in the middle of a trans-polar dirigible flight when they are caught in a blizzard and crash. Buddy then releases a special gas to keep them in suspended animation until a rescue party can arrive. However, an avalanche covers the craft and the two are in suspended animation for 500 years. When they are found, they awake to find out that the world has been taken over by the outlaw army of Killer Kane. Along with Lieutenant Wilma Deering, Buck and Buddy join in the fight to overthrow Kane and with the help of Prince Tallen of Saturn and his forces, they eventually do and Earth is free of Kane's grip.
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Stagecoach
Title: Stagecoach
Character: Lordsburg Express Agent (uncredited)
Released: March 3, 1939
Type: Movie
A group of people traveling on a stagecoach find their journey complicated by the threat of Geronimo, and learn something about each other in the process.
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We Want Our Mummy
Title: We Want Our Mummy
Character: Thug in Mummy Outfit (uncredited)
Released: February 24, 1939
Type: Movie
The stooges go to Egypt in search of the mummy of king Rootin-Tootin for which a museum will pay a $5000 prize. They wind up in the mummy's tomb where they are harassed by some bad guys after the same objective. The villains, who have kidnapped a professor from the museum, want the jewels buried inside the mummy. When Curly accidentally destroys the mummy, Moe and Larry wrap him in bandages to fool the bad guys. They manage to rescue the professor and retrieve the real mummy of Rootin-Tootin who turns out to have been a midget.
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Stand Up and Fight
Title: Stand Up and Fight
Character: Henchman
Released: January 6, 1939
Type: Movie
A southern aristocrat clashes with a driver transporting stolen slaves to freedom.
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Red River Range
Title: Red River Range
Character: Rancher (uncredited)
Released: December 22, 1938
Type: Movie
The Cattlemen's Association has called in the Mesquiteers to find cattle rustlers. They get Tex Riley to pose as Stony so Stony can arrive posing as a wanted outlaw. This gets Stony into the gang of rustlers and he alerts Tucson and Lullaby as to the next raid. But Hartley is on hand and unknown to anyone is the rustler's boss and he joins the posse with a plan that will do away with the Mesquiteers.
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I Am the Law
Title: I Am the Law
Character: Clerk (uncredited)
Released: August 25, 1938
Type: Movie
With the aid of his former law students, a professor-turned-prosecutor battles corruption and organized crime.
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Professor Beware
Title: Professor Beware
Character: Railroad Worker
Released: July 29, 1938
Type: Movie
Egyptologist, Dean Lambert, accused of car-theft, skips bail and begins a cross-country trek to join a group in New York headed for Egypt. With the police close on his trail he gets in and out of scrapes along the way.
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The Fighting Devil Dogs
Title: The Fighting Devil Dogs
Character: 'Wing' Henchman (uncredited)
Released: May 27, 1938
Type: Movie
Two marine lieutenants battle a masked would-be world conqueror who uses electricity as a weapon.
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Kentucky Moonshine
Title: Kentucky Moonshine
Character: First Buckboard Driver (uncredited)
Released: May 20, 1938
Type: Movie
The Ritz Brothers pretend to be Kentucky hillbillies in order to get a booking on a radio show.
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Rocket Ship
Title: Rocket Ship
Character: High Priest
Released: March 5, 1938
Type: Movie
A heavy condensation of the 1936 serial Flash Gordon, with altered musical score. Flash Gordon, Dale Arden and Dr. Hans Zarkov visit the planet Mongo to thwart the evil schemes of Emperor Ming the Merciless, who has set his planet on a collision course with Earth.
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Maid's Night Out
Title: Maid's Night Out
Character: Headwaiter (uncredited)
Released: March 3, 1938
Type: Movie
A millionaire's son works as a milkman for a month to win a bet with his father. While delivering milk he falls in love with a young debutante whom he mistakes for a maid.
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Alcatraz Island
Title: Alcatraz Island
Character: First Trial Fixed Juror (uncredited)
Released: October 13, 1937
Type: Movie
A man who has been railroaded into prison is framed for the murder of a fellow inmate and must prove his innocence.
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Madame X
Title: Madame X
Character: Pawnbroker
Released: October 1, 1937
Type: Movie
An alcoholic woman was charged and tried for murder and a young defense attorney, unaware that she is his mother, takes the assignment to defend her in court.
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Idol of the Crowds
Title: Idol of the Crowds
Character: Man with Irwin at Bar (uncredited)
Released: September 30, 1937
Type: Movie
Retired hockey player Johnny Hansen, in order to make money to enlarge his chicken farm, returns to the game and leads his team into the championship series. Just before the series starts, he is offered a bribe to throw the games but refuses. An attempt is made on his life which results in Bobby, the team's mascot, being injured. Written by Les Adams
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Confession
Title: Confession
Character: Man in Court (uncredited)
Released: August 19, 1937
Type: Movie
Vera Kowalska is put on trial for murdering concert pianist Michael Michailow. In court it is revealed that some years earlier Michael ruined Vera's life.
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The Toast of New York
Title: The Toast of New York
Character: Man at Opera (uncredited)
Released: July 22, 1937
Type: Movie
After the American Civil War, Jim Fisk, a former peddler and cotton smuggler, arrives in New York, along with his partners Nick and Luke, where he struggles to make his way through the treacherous world of Wall Street's financial markets.
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Lost Ranch
Title: Lost Ranch
Character: Henchman Merkle
Released: July 10, 1937
Type: Movie
Cattlemen's Protective Association agent Tom Wade and his partner Happy are assigned to look into the disappearance of rancher John Carroll, who has been abducted by Carson, who wants to use his out-of-the-way ranch as a base for his smuggling operations. Complications arise as Carrol's daughter, Rita, looking for him, has an unfriendly run-in with Wade, then later is herself kidnapped by Carson.
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Orphan of the Pecos
Title: Orphan of the Pecos
Character: Prof. Jeremiah Mathews
Released: June 4, 1937
Type: Movie
Shortly after Brand kills Gelbert, Tom Rayburn arrives on the scene and is accused of the murder. Escaping, he goes after Doc Mathews, the man that can prove his innocence. Brand is also after Mathews and intends to keep him from testifying. But Mathews is a ventriloquist and this will lead to Brand's downfall.
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The Cherokee Strip
Title: The Cherokee Strip
Character: Jury Member
Released: May 15, 1937
Type: Movie
A singing lawyer and other homesteaders participate in the Oklahoma land rush and found the town of Big Rock, but the fast-growing frontier settlement quickly becomes embroiled in political and business corruption. Director Noel Smith's 1937 western stars Dick Foran, Jane Bryan, Tommy Bupp, Ed Cobb, Frank Faylen, Tom Brower and Milton Kibbee.
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Back to the Woods
Title: Back to the Woods
Character: Chief Rain in the Puss (uncredited)
Released: May 14, 1937
Type: Movie
Set in colonial times, the stooges are convicted criminals who are banished from England to the American colonies. When they arrive, they find that the colonists are starving because the local Indians won't let them on their hunting grounds. The stooges go hunting any, and after a wild chase, are captured by the Indians. They escape and another wild chase ensues.
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Marked Woman
Title: Marked Woman
Character: Second Juror #2 (uncredited)
Released: April 10, 1937
Type: Movie
In the underworld of Manhattan, a woman dares to stand up to one of the city's most powerful gangsters.
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Sailor Maid
Title: Sailor Maid
Released: February 12, 1937
Type: Movie
An immigrant girl hears that if she marries an American citizen she won't be deported, so she goes looking for a husband.
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Cheyenne Rides Again
Title: Cheyenne Rides Again
Character: Rollins
Released: February 1, 1937
Type: Movie
A lawman poses as an outlaw, steals $10,000 from a cattle thief, then promises to return the money if he can join the gang--while finding a way to expose them.
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Blake of Scotland Yard
Title: Blake of Scotland Yard
Character: Daggett, the Butler
Released: January 30, 1937
Type: Movie
A 15 episode serial in which Blake battles the "Scorpion" over possession of a 'death ray' machine.
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Blake of Scotland Yard
Title: Blake of Scotland Yard
Character: Daggett - the Butler (as Ted Lorch)
Released: January 30, 1937
Type: Movie
Sir James Blake has retired from Scotland Yard so that he can assist his niece Hope and her friend Jerry in developing an apparatus they have invented. Sir James thinks that their invention has the potential to prevent wars, and plans to donate it to the League of Nations. But a gang of criminals led by the elusive "Scorpion" steals the device, and Blake and his associates must recover the invention and determine the identity of the "Scorpion".
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Aces Wild
Title: Aces Wild
Character: Kelton
Released: December 21, 1936
Type: Movie
Cheyenne rides into Durango and runs into his old enemy Kelton. Kelton's game is to bring his safe to a town without a bank and let the townspeople put their valuables in it. Then he grabs the loot and flees. But Cheyenne is on to his scheme and finding the safe empty, gets the Sheriff to join in the chase.
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Come and Get It
Title: Come and Get It
Character: Lumberjack (uncredited)
Released: November 6, 1936
Type: Movie
An ambitious lumberjack abandons his saloon girl lover so that he can marry into wealth, but years later becomes infatuated with the woman's daughter.
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Two Minutes to Play
Title: Two Minutes to Play
Character: Tim - Bartender
Released: November 2, 1936
Type: Movie
Martin Granville Jr., a star track-and-field athlete, has intentions of going to Claxton College, but changes his mind when he meets Pat Meredith, a co-ed at a rival college, changes his mind team and goes to college there, just as his father Martin Granville Sr., an alum of the school, had wished. But his father has ordered him not to play football. "Dad" Granville, has offered a $100,000 endowment to his old school, not knowing his son has joined the football team, but is going to withdraw it if his son plays in the Big Game against Claxton.
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Rebellion
Title: Rebellion
Character: Gen. Vallejo
Released: October 27, 1936
Type: Movie
In this drama, a Mexican woman attempts to live a peaceful life in California. Unfortunately, land-grabbers kill her father and begin harassing her. Desperate, she sends an impassioned plea for help to Washington, who sends her is special aide to mediate.
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The Fugitive Sheriff
Title: The Fugitive Sheriff
Character: Rally Speaker (uncredited)
Released: October 19, 1936
Type: Movie
Hoping to rid a small western community of its corrupt political machine, Ken Marshall (Ken Maynard) runs for sheriff against the bad guys' candidate and wins the election. Dissatisfied with this, the villains contrive to frame Ken on a murder charge. He breaks out of jail and tracks down the genuine culprit,
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Rip Roarin' Buckaroo
Title: Rip Roarin' Buckaroo
Character: Trainer Todd Knapp (uncredited)
Released: October 14, 1936
Type: Movie
Fighter "Scotty" McQuade, contender for the light-heavyweight championship of the Pacific Coast,after being duped by his manager Ted Todd and fight-promoter Lew Slater, is disgusted with the fight game and decides to go back to punching cattle. He gets a job on the ranch owned by Colonel Hayden, where he once again encounters Slater, who has a crooked deal going that will cause Hayden to lose his ranch. With the aid of the Colonel's daughter, Betty Rose, and his pal "Frozen-Face" Cohen, McQuade breaks jail on a framed charge and puts an end to Slater's crooked dealings.
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The President's Mystery
Title: The President's Mystery
Character: Townsman (uncredited)
Released: September 28, 1936
Type: Movie
The screenplay for this mystery is based upon a story suggested to Liberty Magazine by President Franklin D. Roosevelt. It is the tale of a prominent lawyer who shocks his snooty friends, family and colleagues by abruptly abandoning his successful practice and his wife to find true happiness. He soon falls in love with another woman and continues to keep a low profile until he learns that his first wife stands accused of murdering him
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Romance Rides the Range
Title: Romance Rides the Range
Character: Jonas Allen
Released: September 1, 1936
Type: Movie
Baritone singer Barry Glendon, completing a successful season in opera, departs for his ranch in the west over the objections of his manager Tony. Arriving there with his double-talking friend Shorty, Barry learns that a parcel of his vast ranch has been fraudulently sold to Carol Marland and her ailing (and tiresome) young brother Johnny. Pretending he is only the foreman, and having his cowhands go along with it,Barry allows Carol and her whining, growing-ever-more-tiresome brother to believe that they are the actual owners in order to give him a free hand in running down the swindlers who victimized Carol who, with a brother like hers, was a victim to begin with.Barry learns that brothers Clem and Jonas Allen are the villains and,through a ruse in which they are led to believe there is a hidden treasure on the land they sold Carol, they try to buy it back bidding against Barry, who forces the price up.
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Wildcat Trooper
Title: Wildcat Trooper
Character: Rogers
Released: July 1, 1936
Type: Movie
A Royal Canadian Mountie is assigned to bring in a criminal called "The Raven." The problem is that no one has ever seen him.
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Flash Gordon
Title: Flash Gordon
Character: High Priest
Released: April 6, 1936
Type: Movie
Disaster seems imminent when scientists discover that the planet Mongo is about to crash into Earth. Luckily, heroic young Flash Gordon is on hand to lead an investigative mission into outer space and onto the speedily approaching planet. There, he and his best girl, Dale, who is along for the ride, learn that Ming, the devious ruler of Mongo, has purposely put the planet on a collision course with Earth, and only Flash can stop him.
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Black Gold
Title: Black Gold
Character: Wooden Derrick Bartender (uncredited)
Released: January 19, 1936
Type: Movie
Wildcat riggers risk their lives in the pursuit of oil. Their jobs get even more dangerous when ruthless oil baron J.C. Anderson sets his sights on their territory. When longtime driller Dan O'Reilly falls to his death from a well tower sabotaged by Anderson's strong-arm thugs, his teenage son 'Fishtail' inherits the property and the troubles that come with it. With the help of his geologist pal, Hank Langford, the boy fights to bring in a gusher before the deed to the well-site expires.
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The Shadow of Silk Lennox
Title: The Shadow of Silk Lennox
Character: Kennedy, the ward-heeler
Released: December 11, 1935
Type: Movie
A crooked nightclub owner, pretending to go straight, is forced to kill a henchman when the latter tries to run off with the gang's latest haul.
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The New Frontier
Title: The New Frontier
Character: Joe
Released: October 25, 1935
Type: Movie
In 1889 pioneers race ahead of the law to claim free land in Oklahoma, forming wide-open towns. In one such, citizens elect Milt Dawson to challenge the self-appointed rule of gambler Ace Holmes, only to have him shot in the back. But leading the next batch of settlers is Milt's quick-on-the-draw son John, who gets help from friendly outlaws.
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The Last Days of Pompeii
Title: The Last Days of Pompeii
Character: Slaver (uncredited)
Released: October 18, 1935
Type: Movie
In this action-filled spectacle set in ancient Pompeii, a blacksmith becomes a Roman gladiator, though his rise to wealth and power is jeopardized by his son's Christianity and the eruption of Vesuvius.
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His Fighting Blood
Title: His Fighting Blood
Character: A. Leslie, the Jeweler (as Ted Lorch)
Released: October 14, 1935
Type: Movie
A cowboy's brother falls in with a gang of thieves; when he tries to get his brother out of the gang, the gang orders his death--and tells his brother to kill him.
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Mad Love
Title: Mad Love
Character: Actor at Party (Uncredited)
Released: July 12, 1935
Type: Movie
An insane surgeon's obsession with an actress leads him to replace her wounded pianist husband's hands with the hands of a knife murderer--hands which still have the urge to throw knives.
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Rustler's Paradise
Title: Rustler's Paradise
Character: Rance Kimball, alias El Diablo
Released: May 1, 1935
Type: Movie
Cheyenne joins El Diablo's gang looking for his long time missing wife and daughter. After saving Romero from the gang he returns to get Connie who he now realizes is his daughter. Captured, he escapes with Connie and they return to Romero's just ahead of El diablo's attacking gang.
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Uncivil Warriors
Title: Uncivil Warriors
Character: Maj. Bloodhound Filbert (uncredited)
Released: April 26, 1935
Type: Movie
Set in the civil war, the stooges are spies for the north. They impersonate southern officers and infiltrate the enemy ranks to get valuable information. On the run when they are discovered, they hide in a cannon and are blown back to their northern headquarters.
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The Drunkard
Title: The Drunkard
Character: Lawyer Squire Gribbs
Released: April 3, 1935
Type: Movie
An unscrupulous lawyer uses alcohol to swindle an innocent family.
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The Mysterious Mr. Wong
Title: The Mysterious Mr. Wong
Character: Wong Henchman
Released: January 25, 1935
Type: Movie
Mr. Wong is a "harmless" Chinatown shopkeeper by day and relentless blood-thirsty pursuer of the Twelve Coins of Confucius by night. With possession of the coins, Mr. Wong will be supreme ruler of the Chinese province of Keelat, and his evil destiny will be fulfilled. A killing spree follows in dark and dangerous Chinatown as Wong gets control of 11 of the 12 coins. Reporter Jason Barton and his girl Peg are hot on his trail, but soon find themselves in serious trouble when they stumble onto Wong's headquarters.
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We Live Again
Title: We Live Again
Character: Guard in courtyard
Released: November 1, 1934
Type: Movie
Nekhludoff, a Russian nobleman serving on a jury, discovers that the young girl on trial, Katusha, is someone he once seduced and abandoned and that he himself bears responsibility for reducing her to crime. He sets out to redeem her and himself in the process.
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Two Heads on a Pillow
Title: Two Heads on a Pillow
Character: Member of the Jury
Released: October 2, 1934
Type: Movie
A lawyer handing a divorce case discovers the attorney for the opposition is his ex-wife.
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The Affairs of Cellini
Title: The Affairs of Cellini
Character: Executioner (uncredited)
Released: August 24, 1934
Type: Movie
The 16th-century sculptor woos the Duchess of Florence despite the duke.
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The Tonto Kid
Title: The Tonto Kid
Character: Lawyer Sam Creech
Released: August 14, 1934
Type: Movie
Lawyer Creech is after the ranch of the dying Cartwright. First he brings in Cahill to pose as the only living relative. Then when the Tonto Kid finds platinum on the ranch, Creech frames him for murder.
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Friends of Mr. Sweeney
Title: Friends of Mr. Sweeney
Character: Gambler
Released: July 28, 1934
Type: Movie
Asaph (Charles Ruggles) is a meek, mild-mannered homebody who occasionally shows some backbone to his prudish, overbearing boss, only to be beaten down again. With the encouragement of his secretary Beulah (Ann Dvorak), his old college team-mate Wynn (Eugene Pallette) and some liquor, Asaph regains some of his wild-man soul. Watch out world!
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Gunfire
Title: Gunfire
Released: June 1, 1934
Type: Movie
The second of four films made by Resolute Productions, Inc. that had Rex Bell, Ruth Mix and Buzz Barton billed above the title, and the basic plot is rather basic as the McGregor clan--Ross, Dan and Alex, arch-enemies of Paradise Ranch owner Jerry Vance--frame him on a murder charge, and Danny Blake, a young cowhand befriended by Jerry, and Mary Vance, an Eastern girl who co-owns the ranch with Jerry, help him clear his name.
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Blue Steel
Title: Blue Steel
Character: Townsman
Released: May 10, 1934
Type: Movie
When Sheriff Jake sees a man at the safe and then finds the payroll gone, he trails him. Just as he is about to arrest him, the man saves his life. Still suspicious, he joins up with the man and later they learn that Melgrove, the towns leading citizen, is trying to take over the area's ranches by having his gang stop all incoming supply wagons. With the ranchers about to sell to Melgrove, the two newcomers say they will bring in provisions.
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Goofy Movies Number One
Title: Goofy Movies Number One
Character: Mortimer the Foreman (uncredited)
Released: December 23, 1933
Type: Movie
The first part of this short is a "Metrophony" newsreel. It contains actual newsreel footage with humorous commentary (e.g., a flotilla of gondolas is parodied as being the Harvard/Yale regatta). The second part parodies silent movies with a film called "Minnie the Pretzel Twister" starring 'Cynthia Goosefeather.'
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Keg o' My Heart
Title: Keg o' My Heart
Character: Mr. Smith, City Board of Censorship (uncredited)
Released: November 11, 1933
Type: Movie
Hal Roach comedy starring Billy Gilbert and Billy Bletcher. Also starring Don Barclay, Charley Rogers, Ruth Gillette, Theodore Lurch, Charlie Hall.
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The Fugitive
Title: The Fugitive
Character: Parker
Released: July 15, 1933
Type: Movie
A half a million dollars has been stolen and stashed away and prison inmate Dutch knows where it is. So Government Agent Joe goes to prison and makes friends with Dutch. When Joe breaks them out, Dutch leads them to the money only to find it gone. But Dutch's old gang is on hand and they haven't found it either.
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Gambling Ship
Title: Gambling Ship
Character: Gambler (uncredited)
Released: June 23, 1933
Type: Movie
Tired of the dangerous life as gambling boss, Ace Corbin 'retires' from the racket and travels cross-country by train to begin a new life with a new name. On the train, he meets Eleanor and they fall in love. Eleanor is afraid to tell Ace she's a soiled dove and Ace doesn't tell Eleanor of his shady past. Old enemies won't let Ace begin his new life, and old commitments's won't free Eleanor of her sordid ties. Ace's old life and Eleanor's deception collide with the typical results. But love conquers all!
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The Sphinx
Title: The Sphinx
Character: Dr. Augustus Kelton
Released: June 1, 1933
Type: Movie
A man known to be a mute is suspected of committing a murder, as he was noticed at the scene. However, witnesses saw and heard him talking as he was leaving the scene of the crime. The police must determine if he is the actual killer or if he is being framed.
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The Gallant Fool
Title: The Gallant Fool
Character: Rainey
Released: May 28, 1933
Type: Movie
The circus arrives in Great Shows. Rainey Big Ben and Kit Denton, the star of the show, are informed that no representation will be allowed in the city, and that their presence is not desired by the local potentate. This incomprehensible hatred is equaled only by the Kit 's father's contempt for women. Kit, who criticized his father's contemptuous attitude towards Alicia, his girlfriend, Kit's father tells him of the drama he lived in Big Ben many years earlier.
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The Girl in 419
Title: The Girl in 419
Character: Examination Doctor
Released: May 26, 1933
Type: Movie
A hospital surgeon (James Dunn) protects a mystery woman (Gloria Stuart) who knows too much about a card-game murder.
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Black Beauty
Title: Black Beauty
Character: Bledsoe, the Veterinary
Released: April 1, 1933
Type: Movie
Black Beauty is being trained to run in the steeplechase race, upon which the Cameron family has staked its fortune. However, the horse is injured racing for a doctor when its owner is hurt, and it looks like it won't recover in time to compete in the race.
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The Man from Arizona
Title: The Man from Arizona
Character: Bartender
Released: October 21, 1932
Type: Movie
A cowboy saves his injured friend from a vigilante group, which believes that he is part of a bandit gang that attacked a wagon train. The cowboy sets out to find the bandit gang and clear his friend's name.
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Honor of the Mounted
Title: Honor of the Mounted
Character: Henchman
Released: June 20, 1932
Type: Movie
Tom Halliday of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police is implicated and framed on a murder charge. The real killer has gone back into the United States, so Halliday, with no credentials, has to cross the border in order to find and capture the killer.
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Arsène Lupin
Title: Arsène Lupin
Character: Lupin's Butler (uncredited)
Released: February 26, 1932
Type: Movie
A charming and very daring thief known as Arsene Lupin is terrorizing the wealthy of Paris, he even goes so far as to threaten the Mona Lisa. But the police, led by the great Guerchard, think they know Arsene Lupin's identity, and they have a secret weapon to catch him.
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The Lightning Warrior
Title: The Lightning Warrior
Character: Pierre La Farge
Released: November 1, 1931
Type: Movie
A Rin-Tin-Tin serial presented in 12 episodes. The mysterious Wolf Man is terrorizing settlers in a western town. With the help of Rinty, young Jimmy Carter unmasks the Wolf Man and foils his evil plot.
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Grief Street
Title: Grief Street
Character: Pop Collins, editor
Released: October 1, 1931
Type: Movie
A reporter helps the police investigate the murder of a disagreeable and philandering actor who is found strangled to death in his theater dressing room with its door and window locked from the inside.
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The Galloping Ghost
Title: The Galloping Ghost
Character: The Crippled Stranger
Released: September 1, 1931
Type: Movie
A gambling ring run out of the Mogul Taxi company is intent on fixing college football games. Football star Harold "Red" Grange is a target for the gamblers, whose thugs try to eliminate Grange from playing. Grange's buddy Buddy is himself vulnerable to blackmail, since he has broken team rules by marrying. The crooks use all their wiles to keep Grange and Buddy from leading their team to victory.
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The Runaway Bride
Title: The Runaway Bride
Character: Dr. Kent
Released: May 4, 1930
Type: Movie
Mary Gray elopes to Atlantic City, NJ, but begins having second thoughts about the marriage. Then she becomes inexplicably locked in her hotel room, and a series of cops, robbers and kidnappers passes through. Desperate, Mary trusts the shifty chambermaid Clara who whisks her away to the mansion of wealthy George Blaine. There, Mary must pretend to be a lowly cook, but that seems better than sticking with the guy she was engaged to.
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Show Boat
Title: Show Boat
Character: Frank
Released: July 27, 1929
Type: Movie
This film sticks very closely to the Edna Ferber novel, rather than the musical based on the novel. There are only two major changes from Ferber's book : *Julie in this version is a white woman, not a racially mixed one; therefore she and her husband are not unlawfully married. * Ravenal returns at the end, instead of dying as in the novel
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Spite Marriage
Title: Spite Marriage
Character: Actor as 'Union Officer'
Released: March 24, 1929
Type: Movie
An unimpressive but well-intentioned man is given the chance to marry a popular actress, of whom he has been a hopeless fan. But what he doesn't realize is that he is being used to make the actress' old flame jealous.
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The Royal Rider
Title: The Royal Rider
Character: Prime Minister
Released: February 17, 1929
Type: Movie
Dick Scott takes his Wild West show to the Balkan kingdom of Alvania where the boy king of the country commands the troupe to give a performance. The king is greatly impressed with the American cowboys and makes them his palace guard. The prime minister starts a revolution, and Dick and the Americans put it down. The boy king sanctions a romance between Scott and Ruth Elliott, the royal governess.
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Wild Blood
Title: Wild Blood
Character: Luke Conner
Released: February 10, 1929
Type: Movie
It seems that an evil saloon owner not only wants this valuable steed for himself, but also its owner, the beautiful Mary Ellis. Enter honest gambler Jack Crosby, who wants to settle the score.
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The Canyon of Adventure
Title: The Canyon of Adventure
Character: Don Alfredo Villegas
Released: April 21, 1928
Type: Movie
Steven Bancroft, a young officer in the U. S. Calvary, is given the assignment of ensuring that dirty-work by agents of Spain, Mexico or Russian aren't going to keep statehood-for-California from becoming a reality. Bancroft uses his guns to settle any debates regarding international laws.
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Sailor Izzy Murphy
Title: Sailor Izzy Murphy
Character: First Mate
Released: October 8, 1927
Type: Movie
Izzy Murphy is a street vendor of scents that falls in love with the beautiful woman (Audrey Ferris) whose picture adorns the perfume bottle he sells. After resourcefully tracing the beauty (whose father(Warner Oland) manufactures the perfume) to a luxury yacht, he finds himself in the company of an escaped lunatic John Miljan) who has vowed to murder the perfume manufacturer in retaliation for all the flowers that have been lost in the making of the perfume.
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Black Jack
Title: Black Jack
Character: Sam Vonner
Released: September 25, 1927
Type: Movie
Phil Dolan (aka Black Jack because of his talent at cards), Nancy Dolan, and a rustler all have a piece of a silver dollar with each piece having a portion of an indented map of an ore mine. Phil has to rescue Nancy from the rustlers to keep their portions of the silver dollar from the rustlers. The sheriffs's pose captures the gang of rustlers just as they reach the ore mine ensuring their claim to the mine.
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Tracked by the Police
Title: Tracked by the Police
Character: 'Bull' Storm
Released: May 7, 1927
Type: Movie
The Laguna Dam is to be built in Arizona to supply water to desert-land unfit for cultivation or stock-raising. Rival companies bid for the building contract, which leads to violence and danger for Bob Owen and his dog Satan.
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The Better 'Ole
Title: The Better 'Ole
Character: Gaspard (uncredited)
Released: October 23, 1926
Type: Movie
The adventures of Old Bill and his friends Bert and Alf in the trenches of the first World War.
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Across the Pacific
Title: Across the Pacific
Character: Aguinaldo's Agent
Released: October 2, 1926
Type: Movie
Following the Spanish-American War, a soldier is given the assignment of finding the leader of a band of rebels in the Philippines. In order to do this, he must romance Roma, a cabaret spy working for the rebels. This does not please the daughter of his commanding officer, whom he is romancing.
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Careful Please
Title: Careful Please
Character: (uncredited)
Released: February 7, 1926
Type: Movie
A bill collector working in a tough neighborhood manages to rescue a young socialite from kidnappers.
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Where the Worst Begins
Title: Where the Worst Begins
Released: November 1, 1925
Type: Movie
1925 picture starring Ruth Roland.
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Dangerous Pleasure
Title: Dangerous Pleasure
Released: February 11, 1925
Type: Movie
This story deals with a man, who causes his wife great jealousy on account of his relation to other women, yet who regards himself as a man of destiny in settling others unhappy marital relations. He is named co-respondent in a suit - leaves town - takes a house in a smaller village - picks up a little girl on the street in his car and drives into the country.
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The Empire Builders
Title: The Empire Builders
Released: March 1, 1924
Type: Movie
Australian Rex [Snowy] Baker stars in this USA film. Rex as Captain William Ballard of the Territorials is sent to make a treaty with the natives. But he meets resistance from the Boers, still unreconciled to British rule.Love interest is Katryn van der Poel [Margaret Landis] Theodore Lorch plays Hendrik van der Poel Pinckney Harrison as Karui the king. J.P. Lockney as the friendly "treader". And as the "baddy" Fritz van Roon played by Jere Austin. After fighting and horse riding and rescues "Rex" wins the natives over to the British way of life, and "gets" the girl!
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Gasoline Gus
Title: Gasoline Gus
Character: Dry Check Charlie
Released: August 20, 1921
Type: Movie
Based on the comic strip character and his auto obsessed life.
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Gasoline Gus
Title: Gasoline Gus
Character: Judge Shortridge
Released: August 20, 1921
Type: Movie
Based on the comic strip character and his auto obsessed life.
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The Last of the Mohicans
Title: The Last of the Mohicans
Character: Chingachgook
Released: November 21, 1920
Type: Movie
As Alice and Cora Munro attempt to find their father, a British officer in the French and Indian War, they are set upon by French soldiers and their cohorts, Huron tribesmen led by the evil Magua. Fighting to rescue the women are Chingachgook and his son Uncas, the last of the Mohican tribe, and their white ally, the frontiersman Natty Bumppo, known as Hawkeye.
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Her Lucky Day
Title: Her Lucky Day
Released: April 1, 1920
Type: Movie
Alice Howell comedy short
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His Wooden Legacy
Title: His Wooden Legacy
Released: April 1, 1920
Type: Movie
A woman played by Alice Howell receives an inheritance from her grandfather of his wooden leg.
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Italian Love
Title: Italian Love
Released: March 8, 1920
Type: Movie
A Billy West slapstick comedy.